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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Pushkin Review.daily12026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 14 (2011) through current issueLatest Articles: Pushkin ReviewTWOProject MUSE®Pushkin Review2165-06831526-1476Latest articles in Pushkin Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Между литературным сообществом и индивидуальным жизнетворчеством: Пушкин и Вольное общество любителей российской словесности
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903268
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Одним из факторов формирования литературной репутации молодого Пушкина в 1817–1820 гг., наряду с распространением неподцензурных политических стихов и эпатажным либертинским поведением,1 было его участие в различных литературных кружках и обществах—«Арзамасе» (при всей краткости пушкинского членства в «обществе безвестных людей»),2 «Зеленой лампе»,3 петербургском Вольном обществе любителей словесности, наук и художеств.4 Тексты Пушкина также представлялись на заседаниях и печатались в изданиях Общества любителей российской словесности при Московском университете (ОЛРС)5 и петербургского Вольного общества любителей российской словесности (ВОЛРС). Впоследствии, уже в другую эпоху, он был избран действительным членом
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/532/image/coversmallМежду литературным сообществом и индивидуальным жизнетворчеством: Пушкин и Вольное общество любителей российской словесности2023-07-31text/htmlen-USМежду литературным сообществом и индивидуальным жизнетворчеством: Пушкин и Вольное общество любителей российской словесности2023-07-312023TWOProject MUSE®1110052026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002023-07-31Navigium amoris and an Encounter in Mikhailovskoe (Pushkin—Zhukovsky—Florian—Cervantes)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903269
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In his exemplary article on Pushkin's "Ia pomniu chudnoe mgnoven´e…" ("I remember a wondrous moment…," 1825), Yuri Shcheglov scrutinized its poetics and architectonics—both intertextual, elaborating on Lidiia Ginzburg's analysis of the phraseology of the "school of harmonic precision," and linguo-poetic, elaborating on Roman Jakobson's "poetry of grammar and grammar of poetry" and analyzing the arrangement of formal categories as relevant to the semantic structure of the poetic text.1 Among the poems that contain phraseological, motif, and narrative parallels to Pushkin's elegy, Shcheglov identified two main prototexts: Konstantin Batiushkov's "Vyzdorovlenie" ("Convalescence," 1816 or 1817)2 and Vasilii
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/532/image/coversmallNavigium amoris and an Encounter in Mikhailovskoe (Pushkin—Zhukovsky—Florian—Cervantes)2023-07-31text/htmlen-USNavigium amoris and an Encounter in Mikhailovskoe (Pushkin—Zhukovsky—Florian—Cervantes)2023-07-312023TWOProject MUSE®1397712026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002023-07-31«Сводня грустно за столом»: K истории и интерпретации
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903270
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В августе 1827 года, сидя в Михайловском уже по собственной воле, работая параллельно над «Арапом Петра Великого» и седьмой главой «Евгения Онегина», Пушкин записал в рабочей тетради ПД 836 (л. 26–26 об.) довольно длинное и совершенно непотребное стихотворение «Сводня грустно за столом…» (далее—«Сводня»)1. Действие стихотворения происходит в борделе, где сводня гадает «девушкам», карты предсказывают приход «гостей»—гость-клиент приходит, слушает сетования сводни на дурные времена и четырех не заплативших гостей, любезничает с блядями, но в итоге не выбирает ни одну и уходит, со словами, что ему «охоты что-то нет», оставив обитательниц борделя ни с чем. Вот текст стихотворения, подготовленный для нового
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/532/image/coversmall«Сводня грустно за столом»: K истории и интерпретации2023-07-31text/htmlen-US«Сводня грустно за столом»: K истории и интерпретации2023-07-312023TWOProject MUSE®843392026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002023-07-31Тяжкий млат (О генезисе одного образа в «Полтаве»)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903271
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Уже на самой ранней стадии работы над «Полтавой» (апрель 1828 года) Пушкин создал эффектный образ, объясняющий значение «неудач», обрушившихся на Россию в начале Северной войны:
Сих неудач из рода в род
Воспоминанье прозвучало—
Одной из оных бы достало
Чтоб сокрушить другой народ.
Но в искушеньи долгой кары
Перетерпев ее удары1
Окрепла Русь: так тяжкой млат,
Дробя стекло, кует булат.2
Эти стихи в сокращенном виде (исчезнет упоминание о «неудачах») войдут и в окончательную редакцию «Полтавы»:
Но в искушеньях долгой кары
Перетерпев судеб удары,
Окрепла Русь. Так тяжкий млат,
Дробя стекло, кует булат.3
Советский исследователь имел все основания назвать это место поэмы «знаменитым».4Запоминающийся образ не
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/532/image/coversmallТяжкий млат (О генезисе одного образа в «Полтаве»)2023-07-31text/htmlen-USТяжкий млат (О генезисе одного образа в «Полтаве»)2023-07-312023TWOProject MUSE®344652026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002023-07-31Twenty-First-Century Prisoners of the Caucasus: Scapegoats and Sacrificial Lambs in Aleksei Uchitel's Captive
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903272
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Aleksandr Pushkin's 1822 narrative poem The Prisoner of the Caucasus (Kavkazskii plennik) not only launched his literary career and changed the face of Russian literature, it also created a long-running shared narrative about the Russian presence in the Caucasus. Oddly, this narrative is largely a tragic one, in which one or both of the characters in a doomed love affair perish. Furthermore, this basic storyline often appears to be implicitly or explicitly critical of Russian society, and in particular Russia's conquest of the Caucasus. And yet the popularity of the "Prisoner" plot continues to the present day, including through two very brutal wars in Chechnya. One of the most recent reinterpretations of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/532/image/coversmallTwenty-First-Century Prisoners of the Caucasus: Scapegoats and Sacrificial Lambs in Aleksei Uchitel's Captive2023-07-31text/htmlen-USTwenty-First-Century Prisoners of the Caucasus: Scapegoats and Sacrificial Lambs in Aleksei Uchitel's Captive2023-07-312023TWOProject MUSE®846402026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002023-07-31Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity by Yuliya Ilchuk (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903273
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The question of Nikolai Gogol's national identity is a stubborn one, arising with his first appearance in print and persisting to the current day. The question had gained urgency following the demise of the Soviet Union, prompting reconsideration from what seemed like every scholarly direction: neo-, anti-, and postcolonial. Yuliya Ilchuk's Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity builds upon the important work of recent scholars such as Edyta Bojanowska, further interrogating the apparent contradictions between the two "sides" of Gogol's colonial identity to arrive at a more radically decolonial understanding of the writer's complex and ambivalent subjectivity. Ilchuk's essential argument moves beyond a rejection
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/532/image/coversmallNikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity by Yuliya Ilchuk (review)2023-07-31text/htmlen-USNikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity by Yuliya Ilchuk (review)2023-07-312023TWOProject MUSE®160692026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002023-07-31Contested Russian Tourism: Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century by Susan Layton (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903274
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Contested Russian Tourism is a fascinating and wide-ranging history of the practice of Russian tourism both in Western Europe and the imperial spaces of the Crimea, Georgia, and the North Caucasus. Layton's examination begins with Nikolai Karamzin's paradigmatic 1790 text Letters of a Russian Traveler and concludes with several works from the fin-de-siècle. While there have been several important studies of nineteenth-century Russian travel and travel literature (scholars such as Derek Offord, Sara Dickinson, Katya Hokanson, and Andreas Schönle come to mind), Lay-ton's book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the institution of Russian travel alongside some of its key literary representations in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/532/image/coversmallContested Russian Tourism: Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century by Susan Layton (review)2023-07-31text/htmlen-USContested Russian Tourism: Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century by Susan Layton (review)2023-07-312023TWOProject MUSE®121772026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002023-07-31Graf Sardinskii: Dmitrii Khvostov i russkaia kul´tura by Il´ia Vinitskii (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903275
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Ilya Vinitsky's study of Count Dmitrii Khvostov manages to be both exceedingly stimulating in the richness of its insights and uncommonly fun to read due both to the compelling findings and to its playful, parodic style. It should be said from the start that this is an important and much-needed book. Although Khvostov had what was, by any measure, a long and famously prolific career, perhaps due to his reputation as a graphomaniac-poet who had more zeal for revising and disseminating his works than actual talent, his significance for Russian Golden Age poetry and culture remains underexplored and underappreciated. Vinitsky's monograph addresses this lacuna beautifully.The book's title—Graf Sardinskii—comes from
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/532/image/coversmallGraf Sardinskii: Dmitrii Khvostov i russkaia kul´tura by Il´ia Vinitskii (review)2023-07-31text/htmlen-USGraf Sardinskii: Dmitrii Khvostov i russkaia kul´tura by Il´ia Vinitskii (review)2023-07-312023TWOProject MUSE®68602026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002023-07-31Selected Poetry by Alexander Pushkin (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903276
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Pushkin's stature within Russian culture makes teachers and publishers of literature—to say nothing of translators—dream of a definitive English edition of his poetry ("definitive" is the word used in such dreams) that will win him the love and acclaim hitherto denied him in the West. His singular role in the creation of the modern Russian literary language, touted in many an editor's introduction, might also seem to require that such an edition rely on the consistent voice of a single translator. The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, edited by Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk, and Irina Mashinski and published in 2015, tried a different approach to certain authors and texts—including multiple translations of Mikhail
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/532/image/coversmallSelected Poetry by Alexander Pushkin (review)2023-07-31text/htmlen-USSelected Poetry by Alexander Pushkin (review)2023-07-312023TWOProject MUSE®116032026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002023-07-31Pushkin—liberten i prorok by Igor´ Nemirovskii (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903277
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Alexander Pushkin's interest in French libertine poetry has attracted the attention of a number of scholars. Yuri Lotman, for example, maintains that in the beginning of his career Pushkin knew French libertine poetry well.1 Further, Andrew Kahn suggests that "the Pushkinian libertine respects no limits."2 According to Igor Pilshchikov, both French libertine ideology and British dandyism played an important role in Pushkin's "artistic and behavioral strategies."3 Similarly, Emily Wang claims that young Pushkin was inspired by "the Voltairean libertine community."4Arguably, Igor Nemirovsky's illuminating study builds on the earlier work of Pushkin scholars. It is a valuable contribution to the rich body of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/532/image/coversmallPushkin—liberten i prorok by Igor´ Nemirovskii (review)2023-07-31text/htmlen-USPushkin—liberten i prorok by Igor´ Nemirovskii (review)2023-07-312023TWOProject MUSE®97992026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002023-07-31Russische Poesie in deutschen Übersetzungen: Bibliographie ausgewählter Werke by Ilya Perelmuter (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/903278
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Издание «Русская поэзия в немецких переводах: Библиография избранных произведений», подготовленное Ильей Перельмутером, содержит более 4200 библиографических позиций (4190 нумерованных плюс дополнительные) и включает переводы, сделанные в XIX–XX столетиях и в первые полтора десятилетия XXI века. Язык справочного аппарата—немецкий. Книга состоит из четырех разделов: «Антологии русских стихотворений», «Антологии стихотворений разных народов», «Книги» и «Библиографии отдельных поэтов».Первый раздел содержит описания 108 антологических изданий—как чисто поэтических, так и «смешанных», то есть содержащих и поэзию, и прозу; в библиографии, однако, фиксируются только поэтические произведения. Описания расположены в
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/532/image/coversmallRussische Poesie in deutschen Übersetzungen: Bibliographie ausgewählter Werke by Ilya Perelmuter (review)2023-07-31text/htmlen-USRussische Poesie in deutschen Übersetzungen: Bibliographie ausgewählter Werke by Ilya Perelmuter (review)2023-07-312023TWOProject MUSE®746032026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002023-07-31